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  • Groom's family and bridal party

    The tradition is that the bride choose at least one of the groom's sisters, usually the one closest to her in age, as a bridesmaid, and the groom chooses one of the bride's brothers as a groomsman. If the bride has no sisters, or the groom no brothers, an effort is made to find a personally close cousin that will fill the role. The idea is to ...
    Posted to The Chat Room by radan2 on June 1, 2009

  • Sibling keeper -- Emotional "incest"?

    There's a kind of inappropriate emotional closeness, it can be subtle sexualization, substitution of a child for a partner, or emotional intimacy inappropriate to a child.. Anyway, it seems that the woman writing about when she was ten and her mother confided her husband's affair to her and then expected her to simply ''forget'' it or ''get over ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by bobethomas on July 17, 2008

  • Fake Letters this week.

    These letters have to be fake. I mean, the first two are straight out of the movies or off of the television. Letter #1 is about some random guy who has a fetish about being in diapers. CSI had the same thing on last season. Letter #2 is objecting to a supposed family ''tradition'' where an older unmarried sibling has to dance at the wedding of ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by SomebodyElse on June 3, 2008

  • Life and Death

    The answer Prudence gave to Life and Death about the care of monor children following both parents deaths was incomplete. Such things should definitly be planned for through wills by all parents, remote as the possibility is that such an event may happen. The reasons that couples with new babies select ''Godparents'' is traditionally for exactly ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Rojasp on April 13, 2008

  • Some Islamic Wisdom on Prudie's Comments

    Regarding the fiancee who refuses to be naked at night as long as there are children in the home: Islam addressed this matter 1400+ years ago. This is one translation of the Quran regarding this topic: 24:58 O ye who believe! Let your slaves, and those of you who have not come to puberty, ask leave of you at three times (before they come ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Usama2 on January 31, 2008